PowerPost: E-mail shows Hillary Clinton’s backroom dealing for ambassador nominee
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once joked with an aide about whether he had promised his “first born” to get an ambassadorial nomination through the Senate.One late Wednesday night in December 2009, Clinton’s then-assistant secretary for legislative affairs, Richard Verma, e-mailed her that Sen. George LeMieux had lifted his hold on Tom Shannon to be ambassador to Brazil.Read full article >>